Re: [misterhouse-users] Updated: VirtualAudio support

[Kirk B. <ki...@ka...>]

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Robert Rozman wrote:

> I've read on your web page that you're also monitoring two security cameras.
> What HW and SW do you use for that ?

I use the program called 'motion'.  It can watch one camera fine but is
not doing too well with two cameras on the same input right now.
Hopefully I'll be able to work with the author to fix that.

> Also, I'm curious what are your experiences with smooth audio playing with
> alsaplayer. Did you have any problems? At what priorities are you running
> them? I get sometimes messages of underrun using more aplay instances at the
> same time (playing speech files to separate channels). Is there any way to
> solve that? - it seems like aplay doesn't get enough resources needed to
> play...

I find alsaplayer to be significantly more smooth than aplay... which
also causes problems sometimes.  I don't think aplay has any buffering
but alsaplayer does.  When I was playing 4 MP3s at the same time over
NFS and a 10Mbps connection I had very occasional skips.  But now that I
have the MP3s on a local hard drive it works just great.

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